Mary Douglas Quotes
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He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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Even if your novel occurs in an unfamiliar setting in which all the customs and surroundings will seem strange to your reader, it's still better to start with action. The reason for this is simple. If the reader wanted an explanation of milieu, he would read nonfiction. He doesn't want information. He wants a story.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
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I just keep working out. You can't stop. Everyone thinks there's a trick, but there's no trick! The trick is, you have to be consistent.
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I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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I believe we're the party of small business.
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I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym.
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I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record.
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Look: I don't want to live with a nuclear Iran. I would like to make it uncomfortable for them to seek it.
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I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like you thought he was Daddy, but he didn't treat you like Daddy at all.
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When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack.
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I came to England in 1962 as a very young bride, in my teens, hoping just to stay two years and go back.
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Not everything I do is gossip or bedroom. To the contrary, I think that's just an easy label to dismiss me and to dismiss the new medium.
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I thrive on physical confrontation. It's a competitive juice in me. I'm always going to have that in the back of my mind. So whether I'm 49, 59, 69 or 109, I'm always going to think that I can go out and compete.
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Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.
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Any great organization can go through sectarian phases.
